Residents of a community in Gwagwalada, an Abuja suburb were recently greeted with the sight of this huge python which had just swallowed a goat.
A lot of people gathered to view the rare sight.
Credits: Naijaloaded
Monday, 8 February 2016
The leaders of Chibok community have voiced their opposition to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo's assertion that the Chibok girls abducted from their school by Boko Haram militants in 2014 are not likely to be found.
The former president had said that with the government of the day having failed to act within the 72-hour window of opportunity, there was little or no magic anyone could do now.
However, a leader in the community told LEADERSHIP that since none of the over 200 girls has been found dead or alive anywhere, there is hope that the insurgents are keeping them somewhere., probably as bargaining tools.
“Our hope lies on the fact that since their abduction, none of them has been found dead or alive; and that, to us, it is a good sign that they are alive. We would have been worried had there been any form of report that some of the girls were found dead, or some have been rescued during the rescue operations that were carried out recently.
“Going by the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists in the last four years, one would be deceiving himself to say that they are not an intelligent lot. They know the high premium the world has placed on the need to rescue the girls; so the schoolgirls may be their priced asset for bargain when push comes to shove. We don’t know where they are, but we believe our girls are kept somewhere, either within or outside the country. And our prayer is that, one day, we may see them, even though we are not ruling out the fact that it is a difficult task and all of them may not be rescued at the end of the day,” said the source.
Obasanjo had said, during an Annual Roundtable Discussion at the Obafemi Awololwo University, Ife, that “if any leader is promising to bring back the Chibok girls now, he is lying.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has repeatedly expressed his resolve to rescue the Chibok Girls at whatever cost
Sunday, 7 February 2016
Telecommunications services company, Etisalat Nigeria has approached the court to stop MTN Nigeria from using the
800 megahertz (MHZ) spectrum following the latter's acquisition of Visafone.
The plaintiff said that allowing the defendant to use the spectrum would further entrech MTN's dominance in the retail data services market.
Etisalat Nigeria confirmed the legal action in a statement issued by its Head of Media, Chineze Amanfo yesterday,
“You will recall that MTN Nigeria was declared dominant by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in 2013 and remains dominant in the wholesale leased line and retail voice markets.
“The use of the 800MHz spectrum to deploy broadband services ahead of its competitors, particularly those who prior to MTNs purchase of Visafone, held similar spectrum bands as MTN, will further entrench MTN’s dominance in the Nigerian telecommunications sector."
The reason why Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh continues to manage the national team from his base in Belgium may have emerged.
A source close to the football federation disclosed that since he contracted a strange ailment in one of his official assignments, Oliseh has become fearful of occultic manipulation, even by his own backroom staff.
Vanguard reports that Coach Oliseh is reported to have confronted his staff, warning that there were witches and wizards among them trying to sabotage the team.
“He warned those fond of putting their hands in their pockets before shaking him to desist or keep their handshakes as he feared they touch objects concealed in their pockets before offering to shake him”, the source told Vanguard.
Oliseh is reportedly demanding payment of the N10m accommodation allowance owed him for 2015 and 2016 so that he could rent an apartment for himself in Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari's recent comment in London that many Nigerians living abroad are criminals has sparked a war of tweets between Senator Ben Murray Bruce and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi.
Senator Bruce seems to have initiated the fight when he tweeted :
Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce Feb 6
Your own minister spent ₦80 million on a one day dinner, yet it is your citizens you accuse of being criminals #IAmANigerianNotACriminal
The above tweet must have irked Amaechi so much that he went to his own Twitter handle to fire this double salvo.
Chibuike.R. Amaechi
@
ChibuikeAmaechi
17h
I will not respond to innuendos. Be courageous, name the minister. We know you talk here & do 'siddon' look where you are elected to talk
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Chibuike.R. Amaechi
@
ChibuikeAmaechi
Feb 6
A coward who is not bold enough to name the minister that he alleged criminally spent N80M on dinner is unfit to sit in our senate chambers.
Well, is Ben Murray-Bruce a siddon look senator? He has tweeted his answer to that question by himself.
Ben Murray-Bruce
@benmurraybruce 7h
Please share my "siddon look" video as widely as you can
youtu.be/kT7r7rafYr0.
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